BASE is currently packaged for Debian in acidbase and ACID is
packaged as acidlab[83]. Both provide a graphical WWW interface to Snort's output.

Besides the base installation you will also need a web server (such as
apache), a PHP interpreter and a relational database
(such postgresql or mysql) where Snort will store its
alerts.

This system should be set up with at least two interfaces: one interface
connected to a management LAN (for accessing the results and maintaining the
system), and one interface with no IP address attached to the network segment
being analyzed. You should configure the web server to listen only on the
interface connected to the management LAN.

You should configure both interfaces in the standard Debian
/etc/network/interfaces configuration file. One (the management
LAN) address can be configured as you would normally do. The other interface
needs to be configured so that it is started up when the system boots, but with
no interface address. You can use the following interface definition:

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet manual
up ifconfig $IFACE 0.0.0.0 up
up ip link set $IFACE promisc on
down ip link set $IFACE promisc off
down ifconfig $IFACE down

The above configures an interface to read all the traffic on the network in a
stealth-type configuration. This prevents the NIDS system to be a
direct target in a hostile network since the sensors have no IP address on the
network. Notice, however, that there have been known bugs over time in sensors
part of NIDS (for example see DSA-297 related
to Snort) and remote buffer overflows might even be triggered by network packet
processing.